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Place Description
Neals Creek

rises in SE Yancey County and flows NW into Big Lost Cove Creek.

Nealsville

See Glenwood.

Neatman

community in S central Stokes County. A post office operated there, 1857-1903.

Neatman Creek

rises in S central Stokes County and flows S into Town Fork Creek.

Nebo

community in E McDowell County. Inc. 1909; charter repealed 1943. Alt. 1,282. A popular Methodist campground there before the Civil War was known as Nebo for the biblical mountain. When the North Carolina Railroad was constructed, the station there took the name of the campground.

Nebo Township

E McDowell County.

Nebraska

town in E Hyde County. Inc. 1855, but long inactive in municipal affairs. Probably named because of the importance of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which repealed the Missouri Compromise.

Ned Branch

rises in central Haywood County and flows SE into Hemphill Creek.

Ned Gap

in SW Jackson County between Rich Mountain and West Fork [Dicks Creek].

Neddie Creek

rises in E Jackson County and flows SE into Tuckasegee River.